IWMI_at_SWWW2012

List of planned IWMI activities at the World Water Week 2012:
This is coming from the IWMI intranet, therefore some links are not accessible for non IWMI staff.

	Event Type	Event Title	Who is involved	Action Item	Date	Comments
Workshop 8	Governance for water and food security	Jean -Philippe Venot	Jean -Philippe Venot submitting a paper titled "Stakeholder oriented processes for IWRM in the Volta basin"	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Workshop 8	Governance for water and food security	Alain Vidal	CPWF indicated to SIWI that CPWF would be willing to co-convene	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Workshop 8	Governance for water and food security	Dennis Wichelns and Mark Giordano	IWMI to work with IFPRI on involvement of IWMI and to coordinate with CPWF	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Workshop 8	Governance for water and food security	Malik Ravinder	Submit an abstract of the paper titled ?Investing in strengthening livelihood-water-food nexus?	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Workshop 7	Health and food security		IFPRI have been approached to co-convene	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Workshop 7	Health and food security	Pay Drechsel	Will submit an abstract and link to CRP4 and have a wastewater component	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Workshop 6	Trade and food security	Mark Giordano	IFPRI have been approached to co-convene. Mark Giordano will discuss involvement with IFPRI	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Workshop 5	Towards a green economy: The water-food-energy nexus	Alain Vidal	Indicated to Torkil that CPWF would be willing to contribute a keynote with the outcomes of WWF6	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Workshop 5	Towards a green economy: The water-food-energy nexus	Upali Amarasinghe	Submitting an abstract : Towards a green economy - the water-food-energy nexus. From work undertaken last year.	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Workshop 4	Securing water and food in an urbanizing world		None at this stage	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Workshop 3	Rainfed production under growing rain variability: Closing the yield gap	Alain Vidal coordinating	IWMI/CPWF/CRP to co-convene.	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012	CPWF reported that they are co-convening this and doing it with CRP5, FAO and The Nebraska University Food Institute. Need to confirm organisations involved.
Workshop 3	Rainfed production under growing rain variability: Closing the yield gap	Tilahum Amede (IWMI/ILRI)	Submitting abstract: "Rainwater management transform Africa towards food security and resilience".	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Workshop 3	Rainfed production under growing rain variability: Closing the yield gap	Bharat Sharma	Submitting an abstract on the work from N2 Project (Indian rainfed analysis.	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Workshop 2	Safeguarding global food security and life supporting ecosystems	Alain Vidal	CPWF may co-convene.	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Workshop 2	Safeguarding global food security and life supporting ecosystems	Upali Amarasinghe	Upali Amarasinghe submitting an abstract : Allocating irrigation water for environmental flows: impacts on food and livelihood security of upper Ganga Basin. Results from work completed under WWF-IWMI Upper Ganga e-flows project.	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Workshop 2	Safeguarding global food security and life supporting ecosystems	Robyn Johnston	Probably submit a proposal about the Afromaison project work (either for the workshop or a seminar)	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Workshop 1	Best use of blue water resources for food security	Vladimir Smakhtin is coordinating with SIWI	IWMI to co-convene with SIWI	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012	Contract signed for co-convening
Solution	Planning small reservoirs for enhanced livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa	Jean -Philippe Venot	Based on the results of the small reservoir study	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Seminar or Side Event	MUS	Barbara Van Koppen as coordinator of MUS group and with support from the Rockefeller Foundation	Will submit something for the main program or their own event.	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Seminar or Side Event	AgWater project results	Julie Van der Bliek	Still to work out what type of session to have and key focus areas	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Seminar	Wastewater/RRR	Pay Drechsel	Still discussing internally if we apply. This will only move forward if we can offer something new compared to our well-received side event last year.	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Seminar	Managing water variability for food security, livelihoods and the environment (including Managing water resources temporary variability (flood harvesting through MAR))	Vladimir Smakhtin and Paul Pavelic	Still to decide if submission will be made for this.	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Seminar	Optimization of water allocation in agriculture with the use of simulation models and decision support systems	Request from our Board member Asger Kej, DHI Solutions. Karsten Havnoe, Director of DHI Solutions is organizing. Peter/Vlad current contact points for IWMI	IWMI: IWMI might be able to contribute allocation and decision support info (maybe eg Luna's work in the upper Ganga, examples from SE Asia and the Nile work, Luna's work in Krishna, Matt's work in Volta and Nile, Paul's work in Upper Bhima, and several more. IWMI may be co-convenor.	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Communications Activities		IKG (Joanna and James)	IWMI will organize a CRP5 (double sized) booth	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Communications Activities		IKG (Joanna and James)	IWMI will undertake usual annual media campaign - topic will be related to food security	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Communications Activities		Michael Victor (CPWF)	CPWF may organize something (still to decide on topic & activities	August 26, 2012 to August 31, 2012